Greetings from Richmond Hill, Queens, home of the 2010 Punjab Love Festival. This poster in a shopfront on Jamaica Avenue caught my eye, but the festival - which offered “free food, free game, unconditional love and more” - had already passed.
Kerouac’s first marriage: he married a girl and moved out to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and worked at his father-in-law’s ball-bearings factory. It lasted two months:
At home Edie and her mother, anxious to see Jack as a competent husband, were alarmed that he spent most of his free time in the bathroom, reading Shakespeare and the [...]
A few friends got some real experience with the J train last night - in a blizzard no less - coming out to decorate the Christmas tree with me and sing a few old songs. It reminded me of the following story:
A friend called me up after flying out of New York, very excited. The [...]
I’m glad I got this opportunity to honor a Richmond Hill landmark. And the stories - the Holocaust survivor, the Vet coming back from Nam - it was just too good. I’ve been visiting that fish for more than 25 years.
http://gothamist.com/2009/09/24/same_fish_in_queens_petshop_for_41.php
And Louie’s tricolon abundans - “That fish! That effin’ fish! Is that effin’ fish unbelievable [...]
Viral Fish.
06-Oct-09I heard from a friend that the story I penned for Gothamist about the Great Fish of Richmond Hill still had some legs and was getting traffic, and since I doubted this traffic was coming solely from Gothamist, I decided to fish around the internet and see where the story had gone. Sure enough, if [...]